Naveen Kumar
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‘Stereophonic’ Review: Hitmakers Rendered in Sublime Detail
In David Adjmi’s new play, with songs by Will Butler, a ’70s band’s success breeds tension, and punches up the volume on Broadway.
Reviving ‘The Wiz’ Through ‘the Blackest of Black Lenses’
The beloved 1975 musical returns to Broadway this spring, with nods to Black culture like second-line parades and Underground Railroad quilts.
Review: ‘Flex’ Hits the Right Rhythms on the Court and Off
The writer Candrice Jones and the director Lileana Blain-Cruz show a mastery of the game in this play about a girls’ basketball team in rural...
Review: ‘The Whitney Album’ Looks to Theater to Remake a Painful Past
Eschewing a conventional narrative, Jillian Walker’s soulful show seeks to heal deep wounds through ritual and celebratory singalongs.
Review: In ‘Misty,’ a Restless Artist Grapples With a Gentrifying City
At the Shed, Arinzé Kene mixes spoken word, music and comedy to tell a story of racial tension and male identity in a changing London.
Review: In ‘The Butcher Boy,’ an Anti-Coming of Age Story
The new musical, based on the novel by Patrick McCabe, follows a boy in 1960s Ireland as he recounts a tale of boyhood mischief and...